More on writing academic papers

[Bento Borges Schirmer]

Hi all,

Once again I'm sharing random thoughts.

I think I will stop reproducing templates for conferences for now. I
was obsessed with replicating the SBC template, but turns out both the
Word and LaTeX templates disagree on their output PDF, and none of
them look like the provided PDF! Anyway, the template is ill specified
anyway, compared to the very well specified ABNT rules. And I don't
even know which conference I will publish, so I might have to use a
different template, such as that of ACM!

So yeah, I'm back to square one and I will focus now on content.
That's the entire idea after all, right!? I'll be using defaults for
now and worry less.

And then, after getting the actual research done and written, I can
spend some time tailoring the final print, I hope to find help here :)
:) Like how to handle all the ABNT rules for citations and references
:(

Now I'm thinking about writing filters and preprocessors. I dunno if
groff or mm provide mechanisms to reference figures and headers, which
would be handy. Unless that is the case, I'm thinking about writing
small C programs that recognize some commands and count figures and
headers and replace text for me when referencing them, something like
that. I dunno I dunno. Let's see.

Whenever I search for users of groff, people frequently mention
computer generated content, such as for business. So I guess troff can
be used "directly" by writers, but it also suited to be easy to be...
generated? I'm guessing a lot. But I guess that if a software is
generating troff output, it can count figures and headers
automatically and reference them correctly on its own...? So maybe
that is the way? I dunno I dunno. Just random thoughts.

Best regards,
Bento